Organizing your Digital Life – Day 1

Well, today starts my series on my summer organization of my digital world. It’s a bit intimidating at first because there really is so much to do. So, here is what I’ve decided to start with:

  1. Remove unnecessary and unwanted programs from computer.
Now, you have to be careful with this because you don’t want to delete something important. Today, I deleted some Outlook Add-ons that I gave a try but never decided to purchase and Yahoo Messenger and Skype. Instead of those two messenger programs, I decided it would be much wiser to use Trillian where I can be contacted by anyone on any system at any time. So, whether my friends are on Facebook or Google Talk, they can see me when I’m on Trillian. Trillian has a free and a premium service but I’m using the free version for now. You can find Trillian at http://www.trillian.im/.
 
 
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Carol Mortensen has nearly twenty-three years of educational experience. She began as a substitute teacher as she worked toward her degree. Upon graduation, Carol began teaching middle school Math and Algebra I and served as the technology liaison for her campus. She served as a teacher for 16 years and was lucky to have taught at Hillcrest Middle School, a 1:1 campus where every student was issued a laptop computer. She also worked as an Instructional Technology Trainer for her district providing training and technology integration support for campus and district staff, faculty and administrators. Currently, Carol enjoys her position as the Campus Technology Integration Specialist for Deer Park High School – South Campus. Before taking this position this year, she served for three years as the Campus Technology Integration Specialist at Fairmont Junior High in Deer Park Independent School District. In this position, Carol provides integration support and training to the students, staff, faculty, and administrators at the campus and district level. In addition, Carol is an online Math instructor for Aventa Learning and K12. The Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) named Carol the Classroom Teacher of the Year for her innovative and creative use of technology to create a 24/7 virtual classroom using her classroom website. Carol has presented at school districts throughout Texas as well as state and local conferences on a variety of technology integration topics. Her article on the use of websites as an instructional tool was recently published in the TechEdge Magazine. In February 2011, her article, Lessons Learning In a 1:1 Classroom, was published by TechEdge. The article was republished in ISTE’s Learning and Leading magazine in August 2011. She was named Fairmont Junior High’s Teacher of the Year for the 2011-2012 school year. Carol is passionate about the positive impact that technology has on student achievement. Her presentations are packed with real-life solutions, quality resources, and humor. She has an ability to connect with her audience and motivate them to take technology integration to a higher quality level.

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2 comments on “Organizing your Digital Life – Day 1
  1. kisselreads says:

    >Does this go w/RockMelt?

  2. >Hi Diana, Trillian is a separate program but works nicely with RockMelt which I'm loving more and more each day!

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